Middle English Dictionary Entry
chẹ̄t n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chẹ̄t n. Also chiete. |
| Etymology | AF, of unknown orig. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Wheat bread inferior in quality to man-chet(e [= pain-demaine finest wheat bread (L panis dominicus)]; chet-bred, ~ lof.
Associated quotations
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)501 : Manchet and chet bred he shalle take.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)627 : Of a lunden buschelle he shalle bake xx louys..Manchet, and chet to make brom bred hard For chaundeler and grehoundes and huntes reward.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)687 : Þen brede he brynges..Thre lofys of þo wyte schalle be geuyn, A chet lofe to þo elmys dyshe.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)69 : To make continually of every bushell half chiete halfe rounde.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)70 : Woode to bake with the mayne chete and payne de mayne; and alwey ii loves of these to wey a chete lofe.